Volume: CBÉ 0481 (Part 1)

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1. Ghosts (continued)

   

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   day this fellow Bill Dillon was cutting a bough of a tree, and whatever way the bough came on him he got killed.
   There was another man, named Mc Donnell he lived in Foulksmills, and he was working there at the time. Some time after this man, Bill Dillon, was killed Mc Donnell was coming home wan night. He used sleep in Raheenduff and he used go to Foulksmills occasionally This night he was coming from Foulksmills Twas growing late in the night too. When he came to Raheenduff, there was a man lived in the lodge there at the gate by the name of Peter Doyle. He worked in the yard and looked after cattle and things like that.
   When he came to the gate he heard the greatest praying you ever heard inside in Peter Doyle's house. He could hear the "Holy Mary" saying raley plain.
   "What the devil is wrong" sez he to

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   History Edit

   Date

   January 1938

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Johny Hayes